Within the project, we understand “Living Labs” as places where both citizens and experts from design and other backgrounds can discover opportunities for political and social access through creative practices. The relevance of local spaces increases, urban neighborhoods are the catalyst for initiatives. Local initiatives mesh with technological infrastructure. New spaces for collective action arise.Taking up the global trend for innovative collaboration formats and developing these further is the specific aim of our undertaking. The intent of a more inclusive and emancipated design raises high hopes, but also some important questions: What are the mechanisms by which people can be triggered to become active members in their communities? How can a participatory process be sensible to actors with unequal resources? And who should be integrated in the design process anyway?The session discusses the Living Lab Mehringplatz, a work-in-progress concept as part of the design research project “Community Now?”, initiated by the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), the Design Research Lab/Berlin University of The Arts and the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design Jerusalem.The Session will be led by Bianca Herlo and Jennifer Schubert of the research group “Civil Infrastructures” at the Design Research Lab Berlin.

www.community-now.org

Methoden und Tools + Forschung und Designpraxis

Bianca Herlo (DRLab/UdK Berlin), Jennifer Schubert (DRLab/UdK)

Design Research Lab at Berlin University of the Arts

bianca.herlo@udk-berlin.de; jennifer.schubert@udk-berlin.de

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What did Design Research ever do for us? An exchange between design professionals and academia on the purpose and value of Design Research

If we treat academic Design Research as a design brief, we would first ask what its purpose is and for whom is it providing value? We would want to speak to users and customers and understand what their needs, motivations and behaviours are. This session’s purpose is to escape the endless debate about what is or is not design research, but rather focus on its purpose.

Given the lack of funding for design research particularly in Germany, the reality that design practice is constantly changing to meet market needs, and that academics are increasingly measured by the amount of funding they can procure and publications they can produce, a new dialogue is essential.

In this unconference session we want to create this new dialogue, exploring the current and future purpose and value of design research. We aim to provide an opportunity to start an exchange between design research academics and design practitioners about how each can help one another in the short and long term.

Applying design research methods to improve a creative teams ability to collaborate

The facilitators help organisations implement design practices across a range of fields. They have often found the management of creative teams focuses mainly on the delivering of outcomes, but forget to focus inward. This can lead to a lack of alignment on purpose and shared values holding the team together. The facilitators feel more conversations are needed around enabling a creative environment of trust where people feel confident to try out new things and failure is seen as a way of learning. During this exchange we will explore how to help creative teams improve collaboration through an introspective moment using design research methods often used with clients. This will be achieved by: (a) Exploring the importance of improving teams collaboration through drawing on the work of Sennetts’s dialogic communication and empathy. (b) Prototype how to improve teams collaboration through using a design research method. (c) Reflect on the experience and shared learning. The session will be a lot of fun and will leave you with the tools to increase empathy and collaboration between the creative teams you work with.

Let’s open the Open Design for discussion! Once again, we want to know what happened since the seminal publication of „Open Design" in 2011 (Abel et al.). The session is open to all notions and forms of “openness” on the intersection of design, research and education. However, we would like to focus on following four aspects of Open Design:

- No openness without closures. How sustainable is the general narrative of Open Design as a complex, multi-layered shift towards openness – social, economical, ecological, political, technological, etc.? Does Open Design draw its own maturity model? Do the layers or areas of shift – e.g. relationship designer-product-user, allocation of resources or institutional framework – follow their own pace? Is the design of new “closures” inevitable?

- Open Design is limited by technology. Technology seems to be the main driver or enabler of Open Design. Most projects are tightly coupled with a specific use of technology, predominantly of digital ICT and CNC production techniques. The high degree of "aesthetic conformity” of Open Design processes and outputs leads to the question of how technology-specific Open Design projects actually are? What are the limits of Open Design beyond the use of digital ICT or CNC systems?

- The institutional context as an actor. (Self-)Regulation policies, licences, definitions of responsibility, infrastructure, architecture or sharing-models of knowledge have enourmous impact on Open Design. How do we establish adequate organization and (de-)regulation structures? Who is the designer, owner or responsible of an Open Design product? How do we store and share Open Design knowledge? Where in and outside of academia is the core competence in Open Design to be located? What are the institutional barriers for Open Design?

- Open Design as an experimental greenhouse for business models. How do we allocate resources for Open Design projects? Who is supposed or allowed to make money with Open Design outcomes and how? How do we identify and generate additional value of Open Design? What is the specificity of Open Design business models? How can we generalize individual or local success stories?

We would like to invite all researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss their own projects, experiences and visions, in order to sum up the current developments and to open up some new perspectives on Open Design.

The session will be led by Peter Koval (PostDoc researcher at the Cluster of excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University Berlin) and Boris Bandyopadhyay (Berlin/Frankfurt am Main based designer, entrepreneur and independent design researcher).

I have successfully used my teaching practice as a base to develop new research methods. I would like to share my insights by presenting “reflective empathy” as a design research tool derived from the notion that students need a better understanding in user experience to create durable design concepts.

Academic praxis: education, research and public dialogueFrom Public Relations to Relations with the Public

This workshop is proposed as a brainstorm about how educational programs, research activities, academic public activities, publishing models and external communication can be integrated.In many art and design schools the management and faculties encourage their students to pro-actively take part in the organisation of their own education (bottom up vs top down and various forms of co-developing) as well as integrating them into research activities (practice and theory: praxis).

At the same time universities increasingly are under pressure to reach out to their stakeholders. The ability to build a strong and lasting network around academic programs and research is key. Students choose to study at programs, which are able to prove that they can deliver education and research of high quality (professional output), socially embedded (community), and are (inter)national visible and well-known (recognition). PR is cost intensive and furthermore time consuming. Stealing away even more costly time from education and research.

But what if we integrate research activities, public discourse, publishing and communication within the research and educational model? At the Lucerne School of Art and Design we are developing strategies that follow this line of thought. In this workshop we will discuss the potential of progressive models for building relationships between educational formats and research and discoursive with the public.

Forschung und Lehre

Evert Ypma

Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst

evert.ypma@hslu.ch

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